by Breanne Baker | Mar 10, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
You’ve maybe read it in a daily paper or seen it on the television news. The price of beer is going to increase because the price of malting barley is higher. Consumers are being advised to brace for the shock. Oh, the horror of it all. Let’s put this into a bit of...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 9, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Alberta has just expanded its Cattle Price Insurance Program to include calves. There were already programs for feeder cattle and fed cattle. Now, cow-calf producers in Alberta can buy price insurance from February to May of each year. The policies expire during the...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 8, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
You can’t have cheap food and expensive oil. It just doesn’t work. The price of food is making worldwide headlines. For hundreds of millions of people who earn only a dollar or two a day, increasing prices for staple foods like grains, pulses, rice and cooking oil is...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 4, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Wheat Board has something called the new-pool pricing option that allows farmers the choice to deliver wheat and durum in the current crop year and still get the new crop year pool price. It sounds like a way to take advantage of the higher prices...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 3, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
A couple of interesting developments in the world of herbicides have crossed my desk in recent days. In the U.S., Dow AgroSciences has announced a new herbicide tolerant trait system. It will be called the Enlist Weed Control System. Crops with the trait will have...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 2, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Saskatchewan’s realized net farm income has been at an all time high for the past two years. In 2009, it was $1.6 billion and the latest estimate for 2010 is more than $1.7 billion. There are those who point out that adjusted for inflation, the highest net farm income...
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